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Figure 7-12 Example of Figure and Ground
This same phenomenon applies to these stylized silhou-
ettes of people in Figure 7-13. Here, no frame contains the
space, and the black comes to the foreground. Stare at the
pictures in Figure 7-13 for a while.
Figure 7-13 Example of Figure and Ground
It may take some time to push the black blobs into the
background to see the figure in the foreground. What ap-
pears is a familiar word in white letters on a black back-
ground.
